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The front page News of OSGrid.org

Online Provisionally

Osgrid is back online provisionally. It’s possible that certain assets may become unavailable for a while when the conversion process runs across them. You are able to use the grid and build, new assets will not be affected. Due to the back end team doing their database-voodoo the cluster now has enough “breathing space” to serve both the grid and […]

Assets and Daemons

We’re currently in Maintenance mode on OSgrid. This means the grid is offline. Long technical story short, our storage cluster was seemingly running out of space. Our cluster uses ceph. This is the object storage daemon for the Ceph distributed file system. It manages data on local storage with redundancy and provides access to that data over the network. This […]

OSgrid status update

Past few months the OSG team has been working on a variety of things. So we figured to give you a small update on the grid status. For all users, and our volunteer admin teams convenience, a support ticket system has been implemented. As currently most of the “offline” request came in randomly via a contact form, IM’s, notecards, mails, […]

Vivox Outage resolved

Despite us fearing the free voice service to already have disappeared, Vivox had an outage and seems to be back online. The server that is used for open simulator voice seems to be available again. This does however change nothing about their earlier communications regarding their intentions with this service. We still expect the service to stop in the near […]